Colombia Unearthing Plight of Its 'Disappeared'. Juan Forero.
by Forero, Juan; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 57Human Relations. Publisher: New York Times, 2005ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Colombia -- Politics and government | Colombia -- History -- Civil War (1995- ) | Disappeared persons | Human rights -- Colombia | Mass burials | Mass murder | Paramilitary forcesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In one of the most horrific chapters of Colombia's long civil conflict, investigators are unearthing scores of bodies from secret graves dotting this humid cattle-grazing region near the Caribbean, the victims of right-wing paramilitary groups now benefiting from generous concessions for pledging to disarm. With dozens of people coming forward in recent months to complain of missing relatives, government and military officials now estimate that hundreds of poor farmers may have been killed and secretly buried in a terror campaign that began in the late 1990's." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article reveals how "the discoveries have highlighted a brutal but overlooked component of Colombia's war--the disappearances of more than 3,500 people in recent years--and raised fresh questions about whether there will ever be justice for the killings."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Colombia Unearthing Plight of Its 'Disappeared', Aug. 10, 2005; pp. A1+.
"In one of the most horrific chapters of Colombia's long civil conflict, investigators are unearthing scores of bodies from secret graves dotting this humid cattle-grazing region near the Caribbean, the victims of right-wing paramilitary groups now benefiting from generous concessions for pledging to disarm. With dozens of people coming forward in recent months to complain of missing relatives, government and military officials now estimate that hundreds of poor farmers may have been killed and secretly buried in a terror campaign that began in the late 1990's." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article reveals how "the discoveries have highlighted a brutal but overlooked component of Colombia's war--the disappearances of more than 3,500 people in recent years--and raised fresh questions about whether there will ever be justice for the killings."
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